Power Relations in the Doctrine of Love for Ahlulbait: A Foucauldian Analysis of the Martajasah Community in Madura
Abstract
The doctrine of love for the ahlulbait in society always gives rise to discourse on power, domination, and even individual or small group gain. This study aims to discuss how the doctrine of love for the ahlulbait in Martajasah Madura is manifested, focusing on the power relations created through the perspective of Michel Foucault. This study employs a qualitative approach using data from observations and interviews. Interviews were conducted with Umar bin Abdullah Al-Hamid, Syarif Hidayatullah, Mohammad Yassir, and Umar Al-Faruq. This article finds that within the doctrine of love for the ahlulbait in Martajasah society, from the perspective of Michel Foucault's power relations, it plays a role in shaping social norms and supporting economic stability through religious practices. Additionally, love for the ahlulbait has a spiritual influence on individuals within the community. However, this doctrine also creates power dynamics between social control and resistance, resulting in an ongoing negotiation process among the research subjects.
Doktrin cinta ahlulbait pada masyarakat selalu melahirkan sebuah wacana kekuasaan, dominasi, bahkan keuntungan individu atau kelompok kecil. Kajian ini ingin membahas tentang bagaimana doktrin cinta ahlulbait pada Martajasah Madura dengan menyoroti relasi-kuasa yang tercipta melalui perspektif Michel Foucault. Kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan menggunakan data dari hasil observasi dan wawancara. Wawancara dilakukan kepada Umar bin Abdullah Al-Hamid, Syarif Hidayatullah, Mohammad Yassir, Umar Al-Faruq. Artikel ini menemukan bahwa dalam doktrin cinta kepada ahlulbait pada masyarakat Martajasah, berdasarkan perspektif relasi-kuasa Michel Foucault, berperan dalam membentuk norma sosial dan mendukung stabilitas ekonomi melalui praktik keagamaan. Selain itu, cinta kepada ahlulbait memberikan pengaruh spiritual pada masyarakat secara individual. Namun doktrin tersebut juga menciptakan dinamika kekuasaan antara kontrol sosial, resistensi, sehingga di dalamnya terjadi proses negosiasi yang terus berlangsung pada subjek penelitian.
Downloads
References
Abushouk, Ahmed Ibrahim, and Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim. “The Hadhrami Diaspora in Southeast Asia – Identity Maintenance or Assimilation? | Brill.” Accessed September 16, 2025. https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/15216?language=en.
Al Amin, Ainur Rofiq, and Fikri Mahzumi. “The Identity Dilemma of Arab Descendants in Indonesia.” KEMANUSIAAN: The Asian Journal of Humanities 29, no. 2 (2022).
A’la, Abd, and Ahwan Mukarrom. “Power-Knowledge Relations of The Elder and The Younger Madurese Muslim Scholars in Propagating Islamism in Madura: A Counter-Narrative.” Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf Dan Pemikiran Islam 10, no. 1 (June 2020): 1. https://doi.org/10.15642/teosofi.2020.10.1.81-109.
Adlin, Alfathri. “Michel Foucault: Kuasa/Pengetahuan, (Rezim) Kebenaran, Parrhesia.” Jaqfi: Jurnal Aqidah dan Filsafat Islam 1, no. 1 (2016). https://journal.uinsgd.ac.id/index.php/jaqfi/article/view/1694.
Al-Hadar, Husein Jafar. Tuhan Ada di Hatimu. Noura Books, 2020.
Kusnawati, Aprillia Eka. “Relasi Kuasa Michel Foucault Terhadap Dialog Antara Kostumer Dengan Mitra Ojek Pada Aplikasi Ojek Online.” Tesis. 2021. https://repository.uinjkt.ac.id/dspace/handle/123456789/56847.
Darwis, Robby Nasution. “Kyai Sebagai Agen Perubahan Sosial Dan Perdamaian Dalam Masyarakat Tradisional.” Sosiohumanioa (Jurnal Ilmu-Ilmu Sosial Dan Humaniora) 19, no. 2 (July 2017): 2.
Ladkin, Donna, and Joana Probert. “From Sovereign to Subject: Applying Foucault’s Conceptualization of Power to Leading and Studying Power within Leadership.” The Leadership Quarterly, Leader Power: Rigorous Insights on its Causes and Consequences, vol. 32, no. 4 (August 2021): 101310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.101310.
Aufa, Dwi Asta Asyam. “Ahlu al-Bait menurut Syi’ah (Telaah atas Penafsiran at-Thabarsi dalam Kitab Majma’ al-Bayan Fi tafsir AL-Qur’an).” IAINU Kebumen, 2021.
Christensen, Gerd. “Three Concepts of Power: Foucault, Bourdieu, and Habermas - Gerd Christensen, 2024.” Accessed September 15, 2025. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17577438231187129.
Guizzo, Danielle. “Reassessing Foucault: Power in the History of Political Economy.” International Journal of Political Economy 50, no. 1 (February 2021): 60–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/08911916.2021.1894828.
Hannan, Abd, and Kudrat Abdillah. “Hegemoni Religio-Kekuasaan Dan Transformasi Sosial: Mobilisasi Jaringan Kekuasaan Dan Keagamaan Kyai Dalam Dinamika Sosio-Kultural Masyarakat.” Sosial Budaya 16, no. 1 (July 2019): 1. https://doi.org/10.24014/sb.v16i1.7037.
Hilmy, Masdar, Hammis Syafaq, Abdul Kadir Riyadi, Kunawi Basyir, Slamet Muliono Redjosari, Imam Ghazali Said, Biyanto Biyanto, and Ahmad Zainul Hamdi. Wacana Dan Praktik Pluralisme Keagamaan Di Indonesia. Jakarta: Daulat Press, 2017. http://repository.uinsa.ac.id/id/eprint/919/.
Isrofil, Muhammad. “Peran Sosial Habib dalam Komunitas Sosial (Studi Kasus di Majelis Ilmu & Dzikir Ar-raudhah Surakarta).” Sosialitas: Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan Sosiologi-Antropologi 5, no. 2 (2015): 164848.
Petersen, Jesper. “Observing the Sunni-Shiʿa Divide in Fieldwork in: Journal of Muslims in Europe Volume 12 Issue 1 (2023).” Accessed September 18, 2025. https://brill.com/view/journals/jome/12/1/article-p58_4.xml.
Kreichauf, René. “Michel Foucault.” In Handbuch Stadtsoziologie, 1–21. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42419-0_50-1.
Kurylo, Bohdana. “Pornography and Power in Michel Foucault’s Thought.” Journal of Political Power 10, no. 1 (January 2017): 71–84. https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2017.1284157.
Umanailo, M. Chairul Basrun. Pemikiran Michel Foucault. 2019. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/h59t3.
Mahzumi, Fikri. Telaah Sosio-Antropologis Praktik Tarekat ‘Alawiyah Di Kalangan ‘Alawiyyīn Kabupaten Gresik. 2023. Gresik.
Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge. Yogyakarta: Narasi, 1997.
———. “Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings.” 1977 1972.
Bigoni, Michele, Laura Maran, and Zeila Occhipinti. “Of Power, Knowledge and Method: The Influence of Michel Foucault in Accounting History.” Accessed September 15, 2025. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10323732241243088.
Abdussamad, Dr H. Zuchri, S. I. K. Metode Penelitian Kualitatif. CV. Syakir Media Press, 2021.
Suib, Muhammad. “Makna Ahlul Bait Dalam Al-Qur’an Menurut Ulama Tafsir Nusantara. Anwarul.” 2023. https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/anwarul/article/view/2215.
Alhabsyi, Musa Kazhim. Identitas Arab Itu Ilusi Saya Habib, Saya Indonesia! MIZAN, 2022.
Nesbet, Anne. “Discipline Made Visible: Abram Room’s The Ghost That Never Returns and the Fantastic Origins of Foucault’s Panopticon.” The Russian Review 82, no. 1 (2023): 113–30. https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12397.
Olali, Tom. “Alawiyya Sufism and the Sufi: Diffusion and Counter-Diffusion of Swahili Islamic Mysticism in the Lamu Archipelago, Kenya.” International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2014.
Palti, Elías J. “Deleuze’s Foucault: On the Possibility of an Outside of Knowledge/Power.” History and Theory 60, no. 4 (2021): 20–35. https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12234.
Pinto, Paulo G. “Uncertain Futures: Memory, Performance and Temporality among Syrian Sufis.” History and Anthropology 0, no. 0 (n.d.): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2024.2346905.
Putra, Ali Musri Semjan. “Kemuliaan Ahlul Bait Perspektif Ahlussunnah.” Al-Majaalis 3, no. 1 (2015). https://doi.org/10.37397/almajaalis.v3i1.36.
Saepudin, Ahmad. “Agama dan tradisi pada masyarakat Suburban: Studi tentang perilaku keagamaan para pengamal tradisi Ratiban Al-Haddad di Kecamatan Cileunyi Kabupaten Bandung.” Doctoral, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung, 2020. https://doi.org/10/10_%252520bab%2525207.pdf.
Hayati, Safira Malia, Adib Sofia, Arfad Zikri, Taufiqul Siddiq. “The Interpretation of Ahlul Bait on Tafsir Al-Misbah: The Julia Kristeva Intertextuality Perspectives.” Mashdar 4, no. 2 (December 2022): 259–74. https://doi.org/10.15548/mashdar.v4i2.3638.
Soleh, A. Khudori. “Mencermati Sejarah Perkembangan Filsafat Islam.” Tsaqafah 10, no. 1 (2014): 63–84.
Sukidin, and Pudjo Suharso. Pemikiran Sosiologi Kontemporer. 2016. https://repository.unej.ac.id/xmlui/handle/123456789/74460.
Syafiuddin, Arif. “Pengaruh Kekuasaan Atas Pengetahuan (Memahami Teori Relasi Kuasa Michel Foucault).” Refleksi Jurnal Filsafat Dan Pemikiran Islam 18, no. 2 (July 2018): 2. https://doi.org/10.14421/ref.v18i2.1863.
Vallois, Nicolas. “Michel Foucault and the History of Economic Thought.” Accessed September 15, 2025. https://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/2181.
Poorghorban, Younes. “On Michel Foucault: Power/Knowledge, Discourse, and Subjectivity.” SciSpace - Paper, November 29, 2023. https://doi.org/10.19105/ojbs.v17i2.9749.
Young, T. R. “The Archeology of Social Knowledge And The Drama of Human Understanding.” Michigan Sociological Review, no. 5 (1991): 41–65.
Zamhari, Arif. Defending Islamic Tradition Theological Responses of the Hadrami Majlis Taklim Groups toward the Salafi-Wahabi Preaching Movement in Contemporary Indonesia. Postgraduate Program (PPs) and the Institute for the Study of Religion and …, 2022. https://repository.uinjkt.ac.id/dspace/bitstream/123456789/70175/5/Dokumen%20TK_ANU.pdf.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Pemberitahuan Hak Cipta
Penulis yang menerbitkan bersama Islamic Review: Jurnal Riset dan Kajian Keislaman menyetujui ketentuan berikut:
- Penulis mempertahankan hak cipta dan memberikan jurnal hak publikasi pertama dengan karya yang dilisensikan secara bersamaan di bawah Lisensi Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) yang memungkinkan orang lain untuk berbagi karya dengan pengakuan kepenulisan karya dan publikasi awal dalam jurnal ini.
- Penulis dapat membuat pengaturan kontrak tambahan yang terpisah untuk distribusi non-eksklusif dari versi jurnal yang diterbitkan dari karya tersebut (misalnya, mempostingnya ke repositori institusi atau menerbitkannya dalam sebuah buku), dengan pengakuan awal publikasi di jurnal ini.
- Penulis diizinkan dan didorong untuk memposting karya mereka secara online (misalnya, di repositori institusional atau di situs web mereka) sebelum dan selama proses pengiriman, karena dapat menghasilkan pertukaran yang produktif, serta kutipan lebih awal dan lebih besar dari karya yang diterbitkan.
Karya ini dilisensikan di bawah Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
